Old Woman's Birthday

Today is my landlady's birthday. She's 84. She is from an intelligent, well-educated Jewish family. She just told me how her family was taken away from Leningrad shortly before the beginning of its siege.She was five years old at that time. Fortunately, they escaped and avoided this horrifying drama. Nevertheless, some of her uncles died here, exhausted by starvation and cold.

She's still very curious and joyful, although I see that her age makes her weaker and more sentimental. Her friends pass away more often than <s>it was</s> they did a couple of years ago - that's why she often feels sick and sad. In everyday life she's quite funny if not stupid. I call her "princess," because she hardly knows how to cook or <s>make</s> do the dishes - she got used to the fact that someone else does all this. We've had tons of run-ins because of that, but I think it's all useless. This is how she was raised and it's too late to change anything. Besides this shortcoming, it should be said that she's very kind and generous - exactly like that famous generation of people who restored this city after its <s>ruining</s> destruction by the German invasion.

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Hey Andrei!

Wish your landlady happy birthday from me, that's quite an achievement to make it that far!

Your English proficiency is impressive and I could only find a couple of things to nit-pick at like a conjugation and some other minor mistakes, good job!

Let me know if you have any questions and have a great day :)

I tell you about my trip to Zurich

Last Monday, I went to Zurich to help my friend to move into a new apartment. I <s>left</s>went to the Vicenza train station at 7:05 AM and I arrived <s>to </s>at the Milan train station at 8:45 PM. Then, I took another train to Zurich and I left <s>to</s> for Milan at 9:05 AM and I arrived <s>to</s> in Zurich at 12:50 AM. When I got off to train, I waited for my friend to <s>took</s> pick me up and we went to lunch in the Zurich center. He brought me to walk along Limmat River.

Then he brought me to his home and we waited for his girlfriend to eat. Then we went to sleep. <s>In t</s>The next day we <s>wake</s> woke up at 7:00 AM and we went to make breakfast. When we finished we went to rent a truck and next we went to Ikea to <s>take</s> buy a wardrobe. Then we went to his old house for to take the furniture and move to the new house. In the evening we <s>took</s> got three pizzas <s>to</s>for dinner. Wednesday we came back to Italy by car. We arrived <s>to</s> in Vicenza at 13:00 AM.

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Hey Alberto, sounds like a fun couple of days! Hope you got everything moved in okay :)

Just a couple of notes to the corrections:

Please let me know if you have any other questions, and have a wonderful day! :)

A full night's sleep is very important.

I slept only 7 hours out of the necessary 8 hours, because of my day was bad. I went to work early, but I finished late. I was sleepy <s>a</s> half of the day and I was slower than ever.

I'm going to sleep by regimen again, but more strictly. I've understand that this is really important thing.

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Hey, I like your text! A full night's sleep is definitely very important, especially for language learners ;)

Just remember that when you want to say that something is <em>more that something else, </em>you often need to use an er at the end of the adjective to show that.

Have a wonderful day! :)